Elegant Dublin 4 Victorian redbrick on one of Donnybrook’s best roads offers prime buyers a home in walk-in condition.
Everyone wants to be able to put their own stamp on a property, and the renovation by the owners of 8 Mount Eden Road in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, gives prime market buyers that freedom.
The high-end, high-spec, four-bedroom, four-bathroom bay-fronted home, on one of Donnybrook's best roads, has had everything done to it, but the upgrades are discreet, and a lot of the hard work is hidden behind the finishes.
Address: 8 Mount Eden Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, D04X7P1
Asking price: €2.675 million
Agents: Sherry FitzGerald Ranelagh
Now extending to 255 square metres, it demonstrates the value in finding the right architect to oversee a refurbishment.
Under the auspices of Studio M Architects, the palette throughout is continuously simple.
It features pale parquet floors and linen-lined walls in the original part of the property, where the original features are allowed to take centre stage.
In the extension out to the side and back, it’s a mix of brick, black oak, pale ash and polished concrete.
The fabric throughout is high spec, and the family home now boasts an impressive B3 Ber-rating.
The property opens from its tiled porch into a parquet-clad hall and has interconnecting reception rooms to the left.
Steps lead down to the contemporary open plan kitchen, zoned to fit cooking, dining and seating areas within the light-filled space.
The black oak fronted cabinetry has stone worktops, and in contrast to the dark of wall units, the island wears a lighter ash wood cabinetry.
This is a design by Noel Dempsey.
There are polished concrete floors, warmed by underfloor heating, and light streams in, thanks to the large flush with the ceiling rooflight and wall of glazing opening out to the east-facing garden.
A secret addition is a utility room that runs the length of the original reception rooms and is accessed via a side entrance at the front and through a jib door in the dining area of the kitchen.
It is long and lean but measures about 12 square metres in total and allows for the storage of sports equipment and bikes, possibly as well as facilitating laundry.
Alas, there is no photo of it.
The first of its four double bedrooms is on the return, along with the family bathroom.
There are two more bedrooms on the first floor.
One of these is the principal, which spans the width of the house and is set out like a suite, for it includes steps down to a dressing room and an ensuite bathroom that has a wall of glass with further daylight from the large rooflight overhead.
The fourth bedroom, also ensuite, is on the second floor return.
The garden gets morning sun and is laid in artificial grass.
The house faces the grounds of neighbouring St Mary’s National School.
The property has rear vehicular access, providing off-street parking with access to Belmont Avenue via Woods Way.
Agents Sherry FitzGerald, Ranelagh is seeking €2.675 million for the Victorian redbrick.
